Word: path
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...twin obstacles in the path of contemporary music are the past and the recent past. In the violin repertoire, the beloved romantic concertos have maintained such an iron grip on audience affections that even indisputable 20th century masterworks have been neglected in favor of the millionth performance of the Beethoven, Brahms or Tchaikovsky concertos. It has not helped that some compositions of the '50s and '60s amounted to teeth-grinding assaults on the instrument that made both soloists and audiences recoil...
...fanatics and ideologues of all stripes and hues. As he has taught me and several generations of students and colleagues, the world is very complex. Recognizing that there are more ways to write a bad and dishonest book than being paid to do so hardly takes us down the path of obliterating the differences between liberal societies and their enemies. Liberal societies rest, in part, on the skeptical, conservative, very Tocquevillian, and Hoffmannesque awareness, that human nature finds many ways to fall short of the norms we would all like to realize. Jeffrey Herf Center for International Affairs
Lake Waramaug, nestled well off the beaten path in tiny New Preston, Conn., might not see much hustle or bustle during the course of the school year...
There were lessons for the U.S. nuclear industry to learn from the Chernobyl accident. An important one was that authorities must be able to evacuate people living near nuclear plants, quickly moving them out of the path of any radioactive releases. Soviet officials had to clear out four communities with very little warning. It is hard to imagine how people living around some American nuclear facilities, including Indian Point, Zion and Limerick, which are located near the major population centers of New York City, Chicago and Philadelphia respectively, could be quickly evacuated...
...most frightening part of the nuclear accident was the radiation that spewed from the reactor and then was carried by winds on its silent, deadly path. In the first few hours of the Chernobyl disaster, lethal forms of iodine and cesium were released into the atmosphere. They were accompanied by other highly dangerous radioactive emissions. At first the radiation cloud drifted above some of the Soviet Union's best farmland, but then it moved north toward Scandinavia. By week's end an ominous pall of radiation had spread across Eastern Europe and toward the shores of the Mediterranean...